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"The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States."

Diplomacy, African, States

"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences."

Burden, Consequences, Country, Drama

"The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results."

African Unity, Results

"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."

Life, Sacrifice, Blind, Cause

"It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions."

Courage, African, Leaders, Order

"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."

Creativity, Idea, Democracy, Thinking

"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."

Information, Internet, Newspapers

"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."

Justice, Responsibility

"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."

Independence, Dependence, Nations, Poverty

"From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks."

Time, War, African, End

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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist

Information,

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

Kate Adie, British Journalist

Information, Ireland, Irish, Media

"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Information, Secrets

"True information does good."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Information,

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Information, Misleading, Wrong

"It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers."

Ernie Banks, American Athlete

Information,

"We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback."

Jim Barksdale, American Businessman

Information, Software, World

"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."

Bernard Baruch, American Businessman

Information, Man

"Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs."

Charles Foster Bass, American Politician

Information, Research, Weapons

"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Information, Rejection